White House petition asks Obama to ban creationism

Would outlaw 'teachings of these conjectures that contradict evolution'

Published: 06/20/2013 at 1:24 AM

(Daily Caller) A petition launched last weekend on the White House’s “We the People” website calls upon President Barack Obama to issue a decree forbidding the teaching of intelligent design theories in school settings.

The petition, created by someone with the initials A.J. in Vienna, Va. asks the Obama administration to “[b]an Creationism and Intelligent Design in the science classroom as federal law.”

“Since Darwin’s groundbreaking theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, scientists all around the world have found monumental amounts of evidence in favor of the theory, now treated as scientific fact by 99.9% of all scientists,” the petition reads.